10 movies to watch this fall

Filmed in Chicago, Soderbergh's thriller from a script by Scott Z. Burns marshals a formidable cast led by Kate Winslet, Marion Cotilliard, Matt Damon and Laurence Fishburne in a race-against-time tale of a pathogen with exceptional mutation skills. Audiences tends to like their disaster movies a little more flamboyant; this one promises a certain grimness and leanness of purpose that might well buck the odds.

Filmed in Chicago, Soderbergh's thriller from a script by Scott Z. Burns marshals a formidable cast led by Kate Winslet, Marion Cotilliard, Matt Damon and Laurence Fishburne in a race-against-time tale of a pathogen with exceptional mutation skills. Audiences tends to like their disaster movies a little more flamboyant; this one promises a certain grimness and leanness of purpose that might well buck the odds.

A superhumanly cool and utterly non-blinking Ryan Gosling puts on his best Steve McQueen movie-star air as a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for real. Not everyone will go for this floridly artificial thriller's lurch from suspense into ultra-violence, but "Drive" won the directing prize at Cannes this year for Nicolas Winding Refn. And there it won many, many fans.

A superhumanly cool and utterly non-blinking Ryan Gosling puts on his best Steve McQueen movie-star air as a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for real. Not everyone will go for this floridly artificial thriller's lurch from suspense into ultra-violence, but "Drive" won the directing prize at Cannes this year for Nicolas Winding Refn. And there it won many, many fans.